Means for securing letters



Patented Feb. 1, 1898.

UNITED STATES JAMES SEBASTIAN WHITE, OFBROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MEANS FOR SECURING LETTERS, 806;, TO WINDOWS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 598,331, datedFebruary 1, 1898.

Application fileclMay 22,1897. Serial No. 637,741. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES SEBASTIAN W'HITE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means forSecuring Letters or other Articles to a Window or Glass,of which thefollowing is a full and complete specification, such as will enablethose skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to means for securing the letters or other partsof a sign to a glass or window; and the object thereof is to provide animproved device for this purpose which is simple in construction andoperation and which is designed to be connected with each of the lettersor other parts of the sign, whereby the same may be quickly and easilyconnect-ed with a glass or window.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is afront view of the letter T provided with my improvement; Fig. 2, asection on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a back view of the lettershown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts ofmy improvement are designated by the same letters of reference in eachof the views, and in said drawings I have shown in Figs. 1 and 3 theletter T; but it will be apparent that any other letter or any part of asign or any ornamental figure used in a sign may be substituted for theletter T, or said letters, parts, or figures may be provided with theconstruction hereinafter described. 4

It will also be apparent that the letters, parts, or figures referred tomaybe composed of any desired material, and in the practice of myinvention I secure to one side thereof a flexible receptacle A, which isshown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, in full lines in Fig. 3, and in sectionin Fig. 2, and the receptacle A may be composed of any desired material,rubber or a combination of rubber and other flexible material beingpreferred, and said receptacle is provided at suitable points with opennozzles B, and the operation will be readily understood from theforegoing description when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings and the following statement thereof.

In practice the flexible receptacle A is compressed, so as to expel theair therefrom, and the letter or other device is then pressed againstthe glass or window, so that the nozzles B will come in contacttherewith, and the suction produced by exhausting the air from saidreceptacle will operate to secure the letter or other device to theglass or window.

This device is simple in construction and operation and is perfectlyadapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and it willbe apparent that the same maybe employed for securing various articlesor devices to a window as well as letters and other parts of a sign.

Having fully described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combinationwith a letter or other article or device, of means for securing the sameto a glass or window, said means consisting of a flexible receptaclewhich is secured to one side of said letter or other article and whichis provided with open nozzles, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a letter or other device or article which it isdesired to secure to a window or glass, of a flexible receptacle whichis secured to one side of said letter, article or other device, andwhich is provided with open nozzles which project outwardly,v

substantially as shown and described.

8. Theherein-described meansforsecuring a letter or other article ordevice to a window or glass, said. eans consisting of a flexiblereceptacle whi cI is secured to one side of said letter, article orother device, and which is provided with open nozzles which projecttherefrom, substantially as shown and described.

4. As an improved article of manufacture, a letter the same beingprovided with a flexible receptacle A, having a plurality of bentnozzles B, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 20th day of May,1897.

JAMES SEBASTIAN WHITE.

Witnesses:

O. GERsT, A. O. VAN BLAROOM.

